A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide.

Spain’s total solar eclipse delivered an unexpected sight: a corona glowing gold instead of its usual pearly white. Because ...

More than 1,000 genetic switches behave differently in male and female immune cells, helping explain why women are much more ...

The brain has a remarkably flexible system for handling uncertainty and changing situations. Researchers found that the ...

MIT physicists found that two electronic phases inside the same quantum material emerge through surprisingly different ...

Coffee drinkers may be getting more than an energy boost. A Finnish study found that people who drank more coffee tended to ...

Engineered probiotic bacteria were able to infiltrate pancreatic tumors, stimulate cancer-fighting immune cells, and slow ...

Breast cancer is rising rapidly among Asian American women, with some of the most alarming increases occurring in younger ...

Scientists have found evidence that the effects of a mother’s age on her offspring may be driven by reversible changes in ...

A tiny machine made from just an atom and particles of light may sound impossibly simple, but it raises a surprisingly ...

Honeybees can apparently detect when their food has the wrong balance of essential nutrients and adjust how much they eat to ...

Miocene South America was packed with giant prey—and the predators hunting them were just as spectacular. Fossil bite marks ...